TRAVELS IN BARBARY. 
ish degree. They expressed the utmost amaze- 
ment at learning that he could read and write, and 
observed thereupon, that the abilities of the Chris- 
tians appeared almost miraculous. None of them- 
selves possessed such a measure of learning, and they 
were equally destitute of elegant accomplishments. 
They received, indeed, daily lessons of music ; but 
noise, in this performance, seemed viewed as the 
principal requisite. 
After a residence of five weeks, and before the 
prince's cure was completed, Mr Lempriere receiv- 
ed an order to repair to the court of Morocco. 
The road led him over one of the loftiest branches 
of the Atlas. He found it composed of rocky 
cliffs, perpendicular and tremendous precipices, 
with deep and beautiful valleys intervening. In 
these valleys were numerous huts of the Brebes or 
Brebers, a hardy native race, who inhabit nearly 
the whole of this mountain chain. Their habita- 
tions are rudely built of earth and mud, and walled 
in ; and some, in the highest parts of the moun- 
tain, make their abode in caves. Their favourite 
instrument is the musket, and they are excellent 
marksmen. Each village chooses its own skeik, so 
that they exhibit the only trace of a republican 
constitution that exists in northern Africa. 
On Lempriere's arrival at Morocco, he soon 
learned the cause of his abrupt removal from Taru- 
dant. The emperor was dissatisfied that the young 
